Naval battles of America; great and decisive contests on the sea from colonial times to the present, including our glorious victories at Manila and Santiago; . lake, on their way to doubleCumberland Head, in order to enter the bay. They hadthe wind a litde on the port quarter, the booms of theirsmall vessels swinging out to starboard. The Finch led,followed by the Confiance, Linnet and Chubb, while theo-unboats, which, like those of the Americans, each carriedtwo latine sails, followed without much order ; keepingjust clear of the shore. The first vessel which came round the head was a sloop,w
Naval battles of America; great and decisive contests on the sea from colonial times to the present, including our glorious victories at Manila and Santiago; . lake, on their way to doubleCumberland Head, in order to enter the bay. They hadthe wind a litde on the port quarter, the booms of theirsmall vessels swinging out to starboard. The Finch led,followed by the Confiance, Linnet and Chubb, while theo-unboats, which, like those of the Americans, each carriedtwo latine sails, followed without much order ; keepingjust clear of the shore. The first vessel which came round the head was a sloop,which is reported to have carried a company of amateurs,and which took no part in the engagement. She keptwell to leeward, standing down towards Crab Island, andwas soon lost to observadon in the events which is this vessel, undoubtedly, which has made the differ-ence in the numbers of the enemy reported by the twocommanders. The Finch came round next; and soon after the otherlarge vessels of the enemy opened from behind the land,and hauled by the wind, in a line abreast; lying to undltheir galleys could join. The latter proceeded to leeward. BATTLE OF LAKE CHAMPLAIN. 135 and formed in the same manner as the larger two squadrons were now in plain view of each other,and distant about three miles. As soon as their gun-boats were in their stations, andthe different commanders had received their orders, theEnglish filled away, on the starboard tack, and headed intowards the American vessels, in a line abreast—theChubb to windward and the Finch to leeward—most oftheir gunboats being to leeward of the Finch. Themovements of the latter vessel had been a little singularever since she led round the Head—for she is said not tohave hove to, as the rest did, but to have run off with thewind, halfway to Crab Island, then to have tacked, andgot into her station after the other vessels had filled. This movement w^as either to reconnoitre, or to menacethe American
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